World’s fastest 95-year-old gets moment in video sun
In June 2005, the wires were agog about a Japanese geezersprinter named Kozo Haraguchi. He ran 100 meters in 22.04 seconds — a world age-group record by 2 seconds! (And in the rain!) Now I’ve finally seen the performance. He ran the race solo (as this video shows). This happens at some meets where officials think: Gotta keep everyone in their age group! Well, there aren’t many sprinters in Kozo’s. Fortunately, a couple months later he brought the time down to 21.69 in Osaka, where he presumably ran against some other gents. And that’s the M95 world record, which the Age-Graded Tables say is equivalent to an open (20-30) time of 10.68. Personally, I think it’s worth 9.68.
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THAT’S SO COOL!
Great! Kozo Haraguchi! M95!Amazing!
Is there any way to download the clip?
Tom, the clip is made with Macromedia Flash and can’t be saved to desktop the usual (right-click) way. But several pieces of software allow you to save a clip to your computer:
http://www.toplang.com/flashdesktop/index.htm
http://www.flashguru.co.uk/free-tool-flash-video-player/
http://www.softizer.com/search/
I gather that the issue is converting a SWF file to an FLA file. More info on formats here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia_Flash
Can Kozo hop on a plane and make it to Millrose on the 3rd????
My bad—— need Kozo on the 2nd
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